A quick recap: Ronald Dumpty a.k.a. Dumpster, is now on his second term as President of the Unites States of Alternative Facts. It has yet to be established whether he is only a villain, or possibly also a victim in our story. By now, it is indisputable that he is no hero.

When Dumpty promised to make the USAF great again, he never specified clearly how. Everyone was free to interpret him according to their own wishes; and most people were happy to do so at first. But now things were looking downright scary.

No one expected Dumpty to be perfect. His supporters just hoped that something would get done. This goes to show how important it is to be careful what you wish for. More than some thing got done; things that few could have imagined. It was hard to sell soybeans and plan your life, when tariffs and prices kept going up and down. It was equally hard to feel safe, when Dumpty so clearly loved to stir unrest both inside and outside the USAF. Unwarranted, deadly shots fired at well-meaning US citizens was not how voters had envisaged illegal immigration being stopped.

The signs were there early on. Dumpty was always heading for a fall, even if his first presidency was more of a pilot episode of the real Dumpty show to come. A show that has been credited to Bad Steve and Mad Stephen also known as the Chaos Brothers. They are said to have come up with the show’s concept. Mad has gone on to lovingly nurture it from its budding success during Dumpty’s first term to its full bloom in his second one.

The Chaos Brothers’ concept was – in line with their nickname – built on the idea that chaos was the only way to make the USAF great again. Naturally, they meant great for themselves and their own agendas, but there was no need for Dumpty to know that. He could believe what he wanted as long as he followed the script.

When something doesn’t work as you wish, the Brothers argued, the best course is to blow it to smithereens and build something new. Boom, bang, bang, just like that. To the Chaos Brothers and their cohorts, Dumpty was a dream come true: Someone not too bright but street smart enough to star in their show. A man stuck in a perpetual negative age, who neither fully realised nor cared about the consequences of his actions. All Dumpty could see was the power and the money, not the big picture: the dismantling of the USAF as the world knew it.

Dumpty was a natural at creating chaos by overwhelming everyone with massive volumes of information, claims, and counterclaims to create confusion. It was impossible to discern, whether anything he said was true or truly meant. Dumpty didn’t do peaceful, polite or patient. He did deranged rather than decent. Truth to him was a social game, something fun to play around with.

Dumpty forgot that once everyone learned to mistrust him, nothing he truly meant would be believed either. Nothing lasting has ever been built on a foundation of mistrust.

Dumpty had no use for the ethics and morals of democracies. He was happy to create his own. The word democracy in itself was suspect. It was too close for comfort to the word Democrat. Democrats were bad, bad people, because they opposed Dumpty. Hence it made sense, Dumpty figured, that there was something wrong with the whole concept of democracy too.

Part of a successful chaos plan is the deconstruction of the established government. Dumpty promised something to all different anti-establishment groups, and happily left them to block the centre and fight it out among themselves. Even the Chaos Brothers ended up fighting for power. Bad lost and Mad won. “Things are coming together just fine”, Mad thought at the time.

For a chaos strategy to be viable, a lot of not too bright people have to be in the right places, ready to do their part: To wreak as much havoc as they can. This was where the plan went awry during Dumpty’s first term as President. The second time around, Mad and his cohorts made sure that the right (i.e. totally wrong) people were placed in the right places early on. No smarties would be allowed to obstruct chaos this time.

During Dumpty’s both presidencies the visions of the Chaos Brothers were lauded by the infamous rulers Xee and Pee as brilliant. Some argue that Pee actually helped formulate parts of the original chaos concept. Xee and Pee had long disapproved of the grip the USAF had on the rest of the world. They couldn’t wait to see the USAF dismantle itself. It was like watching a football game where the USAF team was being deliberately coached to shoot at its own goal. It made life so much easier for the competition. “Someone should really give Dumpty a prize for this”, Pee said to his buddy Infantino – and so the FIFA peace prize was born.

Chaos is not a winning strategy in the long run; not in terms of votes. Hence the plan was that no voting would be needed in the future. Sadly, it was starting to look as if that part of the plan was a little overambitious. In fact, the whole chaos concept seemed to be taking on a life of its own once Dumpty was on the roll.

Even Xee and Pee felt a little uncomfortable. Things were moving at such a pace and in so many different directions that the probability of unforeseen, disturbing consequences was rising close to certainty.

There tends to be too much collateral damage, when a leader opts for a strategy of deliberate use of disruption and conflict. People prefer feeling relatively safe. The Chaos Brothers did not bother with safety, except their own. No one else was safe in their vision; certainly not Dumpty.

Which brings us to the realisation that our villain may well be a victim too. A fool, who is being used as a tool. Good, old Dumpty; the Dumpster of all that came before him; the obvious fall guy. Then again, how bad could things really be with all that lovely cryptocurrency at hand?

There is winning, and there is winning at any cost. There is going after something aggressively, and there is undue violence and illegal actions. There is truthfulness, and there is lying. In some cases the line between each of the two may be a fine one, but it can always be found, if one cares to look for it. In Dumpty’s case there was no need to search for the line. Drunk on power, he overstepped so clearly and so often.

In one of those European countries Dumpty considered weak and decaying, there is a brutally realistic proverb: The greedy have a shitty ending. Once again this saying will be proven true. Leaders who abuse their power don’t fare well, when history is written. Dumpty has already had a great fall as far as history is concerned.

Unfortunately, as far as the Chaos Brothers are concerned, things are still on track.

We know that all the President’s horses and all the President’s men won’t be able to put Humpty together again. But can they do so with the United States of Alternative Facts, or will the Chaos Brothers and their cohorts win?

We will just have to wait for the next season to see. The clock is ticking; the time to save the day is running out. No one is safe. Not even those, who think they are.

Disclaimer: As is the way in the United States of Alternative Facts, all the above may or may not have happened. Who is to say, if it did or didn’t. You get to decide.